This article was published in the Science Desk section of Newslaundry.com. You can view it here. In 1898, William Ford Robertson, a Scottish pathologist working in the Royal Edinburgh Asylums published his work on an undescribed group of brain cells. A young man of 32 years, he had been staining brain slices with platinum, palladium... Continue Reading →

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Welcome to the third, and final, part of the saga of horseshoe crab blood. I’ve previously written about how horseshoe crab blood is used to make the most trusted endotoxin detection test on Earth. But, it is now time to ask and answer some difficult questions about the past, present and the future of this... Continue Reading →

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We all love the gift of the gab (or as the Scottish say: gumbashing). What could be better then than podcasts about science? Here's a list of our podcasts that we've made so far. We would love your inputs on content and production. If you have suggestions for new topics to cover, hit us up... Continue Reading →

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I’m beginning this article exactly where the last one finished, with a cartoon showing how LAL is made. Cartoon by Shruti Muralidhar - How LAL is made. Adapted from multiple references cited at the end of the article Lets focus on what is done to the blood after collection. It is spun at very high... Continue Reading →

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In the previous article of the ‘Life is Rough’ series, we looked at how blood clotting allows barnacles to stick as well as they do. Through this article, and more of them in the coming week, we will continue to talk about blood clotting but, for a different reason and, in a different organism: the... Continue Reading →

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Q: What’s with the missing ‘e’? A: There isn’t a missing ‘e’. It is how it is spelt. In fact, it is an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. Q: You’ve lost me now, what does all that mean? A: Guilty as charged. You see it all started with biologists who were... Continue Reading →

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In searching for topics to discuss in the 'Life is Rough' series, I've come across some very fascinating phenomena. Each of these is fascinating on its own, but the deeper I dug into them, the more I realized that they are all connected. And, the connections are just as interesting as the individual phenomena. I... Continue Reading →